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OSU Astronomy Student Selected to Receive President's Prize
OSU Astronomy student Anna Voelker is one of two graduating seniors to be selected as recipients of the 2018 President’s Prize, the highest university recognition bestowed on exceptional students…
Ohio State University Student Wins Prestigious Arts and Sciences Scholarship
Ohio State University undergraduate Connor Basinger has won a prestigious Arts and Sciences Honors Committee Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Connor is investigating how spectroscopic measures…
Paul Sutter Receives Film Festival Award
Ohio State Astrophysicist and COSI Chief Scientist Dr. Paul Sutter accepted the award for "Best Director" at the Escape Velocity Film Festival for Song of the Stars! The award cited the innovative…
John Beacom Named an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy
John Beacom, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP), has been named one of seven new Arts and Science Distinguished…
Scott Gaudi awarded NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal
Scott Gaudi has been awarded the NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal for his 'outstanding leadership as the ExoPlanet Program Analysis Group Chairperson having significant impact on NASA's…
OSU PhD Subo Dong wins Chinese Astronomy Prize
On August 8, 2017, Subo Dong, a faculty member of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics of Peking University and 2009 OSU Astronomy PhD recipient was awarded the Su-Shu Huang Prize…
Undergraduates Present Summer Research - 2017
The Department of Astronomy and CCAPP hosted our eleventh annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on August 4, 2017. Students who participated in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program…
Department Hosts Teacher Resource Day
The Department of Astronomy hosted a Teacher Resource Day for local elementary and middle school teachers on Tuesday, August 1st. Teachers learned about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's classroom…
Astronomers Win NASA Award
Professors Scott Gaudi and Andy Gould, Postdoctoral Researchers Matthew Penny and Radek Poleski, and former PhD student Calen Henderson, are part of a 17-member international team who received…